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Oct. 04, 2019 / Gordon Price

Portland Has a Choice: Garages or Low Prices?

The latest from Michael Anderson at the Sightline Institute: For three years, Portland’s proposal to re-legalize fourplexes citywide has been…
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Oct. 03, 2019 / Gordon Price

Is Andrew Scheer an Extinctionist?

How to make an editorial comment in a front-page layout … Not sure how deliberately The Globe juxtaposed an Andrew…
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Sep. 30, 2019 / Gordon Price

Josh Kepkay’s Podcast: “What the Future Holds with Gordon Price”

Josh Kepkay is a realtor, and now a podcaster – an opportunity, of course, to increase his profile while having…
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Sep. 27, 2019 / Gordon Price

‘Big Moves’ will Pre-empt City-wide Plan

  The Vancouver City-wide Plan, which with its $16 million budget to fund three years of conversations and consultations, starts…
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Sep. 26, 2019 / Alexandra Doran

Checking In on Rental Housing and Tenant Protection: City of Vancouver Housing Strategy Progress, VTU, and Making Your Voice Heard!

In recent years efforts across the City of Vancouver are being made to not only create new rental housing stock,…
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Sep. 26, 2019 / Gordon Price

The New Signifier of Our Urban Era

Beginning in the 1970s and through the ’80s, in both the city and the region, the word used to describe…
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Sep. 24, 2019 / Gordon Price

West Pacific: How We Campaign

Candidates at SFU, on transportation issues.  Organized by Moving in a Livable Region.…
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Sep. 20, 2019 / VWPT Vancouver

Talking NIMBYism, Populism & Campaign 2022 with George Affleck

PriceTalks Talking NIMBYism, Populism & Campaign 2022 with George Affleck Play Episode Pause Episode 1x 00:00 / 35:03 Subscribe Share…
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Sep. 14, 2019 / Gordon Price

Our world Just Shifted Again

Three days late ……
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Sep. 13, 2019 / Alexandra Doran

The Quest for Commute Trip Reduction Part – II: Opportunities and Challenges for Effective CTR across B.C.

In Review: The Quest for Commute Trip Reduction Part – I In part one of this series, CTR was described…
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Sep. 05, 2019 / Gordon Price

Rebuilding West Davie

As a consequence of the West End Community Plan of 2013, there is a massive rebuilding of the blocks on…
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Aug. 29, 2019 / Alexandra Doran

The Quest for Commute Trip Reduction – Part I: What is CTR, and who are its Frontrunners?

What is CTR? Commute Trip Reduction (CTR), a facet of Transportation Demand Management (TDM), is a suite of strategies (i.e.…
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Aug. 25, 2019 / Barry Rueger

Gender Bias in Snowplowing?

Every once in a while you read an article that really challenges long-held assumptions.  This one at the 99% Invisible…
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Aug. 22, 2019 / Sandy James Planner

Vancouver’s Granville Island Again~Is it for People or Is it for Cars?

There’s new management in town for that place that attracts lots of passionate reaction, Granville Island. Owned and governed by…

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